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City actions with creative and practical approaches to shifting our energy system.
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Public-private partnership for a large scale building retrofit programme
Saving emissions and money
Ljubljana is working with two private companies to realise Slovenia’s largest ever energy retrofit contracting project, an investment of €14.9 million for the retrofit of […]
Crowd investing for solar roofs in Križevci
Crowd investing for renewable energy has become quite common in the last few years with many available platforms for managing projects and communication with the […]
Mur|Mur : Retrofitting private buildings to reduce energy consumption
Mur|Mur is a major private housing renovation scheme developed by Grenoble Metropole. The first campaign aimed at reducing energy consumption through the retrofitting of condominiums […]
Accelerating Condominium Energy Retrofitting
Nearly zero energy retrofitting in 17 condominiums
The City of Tartu participated in the Horizon2020 project SmartEnCity as a lighthouse city. The project’s main goal was the reduction of energy consumption in […]
Mouscron, a city going solar
The COOPEM – Cooperative Energy Mouscron a first of its kind of cooperative, is reminding us that the city is a pioneer in energy efficiency […]
Accelerating Condominium Energy Retrofitting
The Ecoreno’v advisory service
Greater Lyon, gathering 59 municipalities, has developed a comprehensive large scale energy retrofitting programme. Based on strong and trustful collaboration between complementary public institutions and […]
From spinning yarn to carbon budgeting
Manchester Climate Change Strategy 2017-2050 : How a centre of the industrial revolution becomes a centre of the energy revolution:
The city of Manchester played a key role in the industrial revolution in the 19th century. As a former textile capital, the city has a […]
Soft Loan Scheme for Photovoltaics
A Soft Loan Scheme with favourable terms for the installation of photovoltaic systems on homes has been co-developed by Aradippou Municipality and the Cyprus Cooperative […]
The Delft Low-interest energy renovation loans
In 2003, Delft adopted a Local Energy Action Plan with the following main goals to be achieved by 2012 compared to 1990: – Decrease the […]
E-deals to achieve a carbon neutral target by 2050
The city of Delft (100,000 inhabitants) has had an active energy policy since the 1990s, resulting in a 15% greenhouse gas emission reduction between 1990 […]
A “care-free” renovation package
The energy refurbishment rate of Stuttgart’s building stock is too lowAbout 80% of Stuttgart’s buildings were constructed before the existence of the first Thermal Insulation […]
Stuttgart Fund
Internal contracting
Stuttgart’s Internal Contracting links different independent parts of the city authority to enable quick and flexible investment decisions. Its operational scope is energy improvements within […]
